> Neat! I'm using QWERTY International layouts myself, where you can type umlauts and ß with special keys for modifiers (e.g. alt+u on Mac for ¨), but I still think this is a cool tool.
Yeah, I had looked into these but for some reason that didn't work. Don't remember why.
> Looking through the repo I wondered why you would commit the complete German dictionary weighing in at over 30 MB, whereas you only need a small fraction, the words containing the umlauts (or their false matches). Surely this would be a huge performance boost?
Yes! It would be performance boost. In fact, I had a "caching" sort of functionality in the tool before. The whole dictionary is shipped (because that makes it much easier and there's almost no risk of wrong-doing just copy-pasting a word list, plus it compresses well enough), but then a list containing only special characters will be generated on first use if it doesn't exist yet.
As you noted, a lot of words do contain special letters, so the "complexity" wasn't worth it to me and I removed that. Could be brought back anytime, but it's fine for now.
Yeah, I had looked into these but for some reason that didn't work. Don't remember why.
> Looking through the repo I wondered why you would commit the complete German dictionary weighing in at over 30 MB, whereas you only need a small fraction, the words containing the umlauts (or their false matches). Surely this would be a huge performance boost?
Yes! It would be performance boost. In fact, I had a "caching" sort of functionality in the tool before. The whole dictionary is shipped (because that makes it much easier and there's almost no risk of wrong-doing just copy-pasting a word list, plus it compresses well enough), but then a list containing only special characters will be generated on first use if it doesn't exist yet.
As you noted, a lot of words do contain special letters, so the "complexity" wasn't worth it to me and I removed that. Could be brought back anytime, but it's fine for now.